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What are the "actual solving skills" that allow you to generally solve problems that you have never seen a prototype of before? Pretty much all learning is reco
by imgabe 12y ago
What are the "actual solving skills" that allow you to generally solve problems that you have never seen a prototype of before? Pretty much all learning is recognizing what types of patterns there are and how to apply them. People who are good at solving logic puzzles like this tend to have seen a lot of them before. In the real world "applying the method used to solve a similar problem" is a solving skill used to solve actual problems. If there are generalizable skills, why aren't we teaching them? And how would we teach them if not by showing examples of problems where they are applied?
- guard-of-terra 12y agoWe are not teaching actual solving skills because it's hard to check for them. You can't just give a new problem to a bunch of kids and expect them to yield a measurable result. Some may be already familiar with this kind of problems, other may be only able to get ideas when bouncing them against other kids. It's a mess. Solving a hundred of similar questions? That gives you real performance score - how children concentrate under stress while doing boring repetitive tasks. Grading is evil.
- barry-cotter 12y agoWhile I share an awful lot of your antipathy to grading there's an entire discipline devoted to how to measure capabilities and knowledge, psychometrics. http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics While devising excellent tests is difficult, okay ones aren't that hard either.